Who we are

We are a medium-sized firm comprising 5 partners and a total staff of 16. All of our lawyers are proficient in English.

Whilst we provide our business clients with all the benefits of a full service law firm, we pride ourselves in our especially strong track record in the fields of M&A and Private Equity transactions, Dispute Resolution and Employment Law.

Although we serve clients from many sectors of industry, our lawyers have an especially deep understanding and extensive expertise on which to draw in our key sector focuses of Pharmaceuticals, TMT(Telecommunications, Media, Technology), Energy and Gaming/Betting.

Our clients include foreign corporations, the Hungarian businesses of multinational companies and medium to large Hungarian businesses. We are typically instructed in complex transactions and legal disputes, cases of a cross-border nature, those demanding high quality English language documentation and/or involving clients who require an international level of service.

Client service

We are committed to providing services at high international standards.

International dimensions

News & publications

We are extremely proud that our managing partner Zoltán Forgó has been awarded one of the highest accolades of the Hungarian Bar Association „For Excellent Lawyer’s Work”. This is the appreciation of his more than 25 years’ practice in the areas of international business law, M&A, financing and real estate transactions, as well as complex dispute resolution work.

We are proud to announce that our firm has become a member of World IT Lawyers (WITL), a network of outstanding specialist law firms in the field of IT, TMT, e-commerce and other related legal areas. Our firm is the only Hungarian law firm in this prestigious alliance.
WITL provides us a great opportunity to share experiences with acknowledged experts in IT law. Through our membership in WITL, we aim to serve our clients’ international legal needs in the IT / TMT / e-commerce sectors even better, and we also hope to be able to work with new international clients. Please see http://www.worlditlawyers.com/ for more information.

There have been significant changes made to the Hungarian merger control rules. There will be two type of thresholds, it will be possible to carry out formal consultation procedure with the Competition Authority and in certain cases the procedure can be completed within 1-8 days. The full text of our newsletter can be read here.

There have been many important changes made to the Civil Code, affecting issues such as the liability of executive officers, the ability to agree on a call option as security, and others. Please find a summary of the changes in our recent newsletter.

Our firm and partners have once again been recognised by Chambers Europe among the leading law firms in the categories of Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution and Employment. Please see: http://www.chambersandpartners.com for more information.

Gábor Damjanovic has recently participated in the successful panel “Incentivising talent” at the International Bar Association’s 2nd IBA Global Entrepreneurship Conference in Barcelona.

Our law firm contributed to the Hungarian section of „Upstream Security in Europe”, edited by P + P Pöllath + Partners. By clicking here you will find a concise overview of the issues arising in connection with granting and taking of Upstream Security in 29 European countries.

The 2016 edition of Legal 500 has again listed our firm among the most prestigious firms in Hungary, ranking us in all of our practice areas. Our Tier 1 status for Commercial, Corporate and M&A has been reinforced, the directory commenting that “‘Top-notch’ firm Forgó, Damjanovic & Partners Law Firm has a strong international focus, and receives a flow of referrals from global law firms. Zoltán Forgó’s team is commended for its ‘commercial’ approach and ‘high-quality service’…”. See more at: http://www.legal500.com/firms/15453/15462

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